Pinball Arcade by FarSight Studios features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern Pinball®, and Gottlieb® together in one game.

Tales of the Arabian Nights is unlocked in this version.

This update adds: World Champion Soccer

World Champion Soccer (1994):

Black Knight, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Champion Pub, and Indy 500 are free to play as the Tables of the Month!

Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail.

Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Theatre of Magic (named the best video pinball simulation of all time by G4TV), Scared Stiff, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Monster Bash, Gorgar, Circus Voltaire, Funhouse, Medieval Madness, PinBot, The Machine: Bride of PinBot, Creature from the Black Lagoon, No Good Gofers, Big Shot, Taxi, Harley-Davidson® 3rd Edition, Black Knight, Cactus Canyon, White Water, Space Shuttle®, Centaur, Flight 2000, Goin Nuts, Terminator 2: Judgment Day®, and other great tables are also available from within this great game.

Each month, regular updates will add classic pinball tables for years to come!

Were excited to introduce streaming videos to the Arcade (the new Videos icon on the main menu). Our first video is The History of Pinball, a fascinating chronicle of our favorite pastime. Check it out!

Our goal is for the Pinball Arcade to become the most realistic and comprehensive pinball game ever created. Please support us in our efforts to preserve these tables and join the indelible part of Americana that is pinball!

What reviews are saying:Simply one of the best pinball games Ive ever played Touch ArcadeAs close to the pinball experience as you will ever get in the palm of your hand Pocket GamerPinball doesnt get any more real or fun on mobile GamezeboThis game is superb along with great presentation Inentertainmentan impressive title, and one that is bound to please pinball fans -148 AppsAuthenticity is the name of the game here, and Farsight has absolutely nailed it GameLive.TVquite impressive with content this great, it doesnt need to use the hard sell -iLoungea pinball nerds dream come true App Addict

The full Arabian Nights table is included in the app, while the other three have free trials. Unlike most pinball trials, these are based on a score limit, not a time limit, so you can experience a pretty hefty chunk of gameplay before committing to a purchase.

You can buy the Theatre of Magic table for $NZ4.19, Ripley's for NZ$5.29, or Black Hole for NZ$2.59; buying all three of the tables at once costs NZ$12.99 - which, in a bizarre twist, is actually almost a dollar more expensive than buying all of the tables individually.

Pros: Four "real" pinball tables, with all that entails. There is a lot of detail here, with music, sound effects, goals, minigames, and animations all lifted from the actual machines.

There are very in-depth instructions for each table, showing what to do and how to do it, as well as a brief history of each of the different tables.

Cons: Suffers a bit from floaty 90s-era video game "plastic pinball" physics, for those seeking a hyper-realistic simulation.

Leaderboards are only available to Facebook users, with no exceptions, and there are no achievements for those who hyperventilate over these.

The Black Hole table might be good for nostalgia value, but is visually bland, aurally monotonous, and generally looks and feels like something somebody threw together as part of their Visual Basic homework.

So far, three of the tables have proven to be pretty fun, and there are quite a few more slated to be released in the future; my preference here would be for more modern, complex tables, rather than the older, more basic ones like Black Hole.

You can buy the Theatre of Magic table for $NZ4.19, Ripley's for NZ$5.29, or Black Hole for NZ$2.59; buying all three of the tables at once costs NZ$12.99 - which, in a bizarre twist, is actually almost a dollar more expensive than buying all of the tables individually.

Thats ridiculous ! Sounds like something has gone wrong and hopefully will be fixed

Ouch! Did you, Appletini, play any of the ZEN Pinballs (I know those are fantasy pinballs)? If yes—what would you say: Better, equal or worse physics in PA?

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Leaderboards are only available to Facebook users

Ouch once more! Not even local leaderboards?! Even being not really old I never had a FB account and will never have. It seems that I'll instabuy the first table and test thoroughly before buying another…

I don't know about the "plastic pinball" physics in PA. All I do know is that I prefer the feel of Williams Pinball HOF on the PS3 to Zen Pinball. I doubt Farsight's physics engine has gotten worse since then so I'm pretty sure I'll love PA...

Ouch once more! Not even local leaderboards?! Even being not really old I never had a FB account and will never have. It seems that I'll instabuy the first table and test thoroughly before buying another…[/QUOTE

I totally agree. I think most of the players are middle aged guy´s who played the tables for real
some years ago.Most of us don´t have an facebook account and don´t want it.
We need online leaderboards without facebook. I don´t want that teeny shit.

Ouch! Did you, Appletini, play any of the ZEN Pinballs (I know those are fantasy pinballs)? If yes—what would you say: Better, equal or worse physics in PA?

It's similar to Zen, but the ball feels like it has less weight, and the implementation feels altogether more like the Gameprom tables - this isn't necessarily a bad thing, although I know some people hate those tables for that specific reason. Occasionally the ball will "bounce" mid-flight when there's no reason for it to do so (and the table hasn't been nudged). On a 4th gen iPod Touch, the Ripley's table also has some pretty noticeable framerate issues.

On a side note, I actually prefer this style of play over that found in Age of Pinballs, as in that game the ball feels far too heavy, and the tables are designed such that most shots seem destined to hit dead parts of the field.

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Ouch once more! Not even local leaderboards?! Even being not really old I never had a FB account and will never have. It seems that I'll instabuy the first table and test thoroughly before buying another…

There is a local high score list for each table, but the global leaderboards require Facebook.

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